ISLAMABAD: A spokesman for the Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) has clarified the news item published on May 23, 2009 in The News in which it was claimed that the Iesco had provided new connections to some farmhouses of Chak Shahzad under Tariff D-2 (1), besides installation of material, particularly a transformer without recovery of cost. He said the Iesco had provided new connections to the farmhouses as per the Iesco-Wapda rules without showing favour to any VIP. He said the contents of the news item were investigated and scrutinised, but no irregularity was found in provision of ...

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Shaukat Aziz pushed the Ports and Shipping Ministry in 2005 to lease out a 20-hectares of land – owned by the Karachi Port Trust (KPT) – to the US consulate in Karachi at a rate ‘much lower’ than the market price, KPT Chairman Nasreen Haq claimed on Friday. Addressing a meeting of the National Assembly Public Accounts Committee (PAC), the KPT chairman said Prime Minister’s Secretariat directed the Ports and Shipping Ministry in 2005 to identify and lease out 20 hectares of KPT land to the US consulate for 99 years at the rate of Rs ...